Some Local Names of Birds 79 



Gbuidae. 



55. Grus americana. — Gourd head, white crane, Hickman, Ky. 

 (Pindar). 



Rallidae. 



56. Rallus elegans. — Double rail, Newbern, N. C. (Brimley). 



57. Rallus virginianus. — ^Single rail, Newbern, N. C. (Brimley). 



58. Gallinula galeata. — Rale, Hamburg, La. 



59. Fulica americana.— Chicken duck, chicken-bill, Wallops Id., 

 Va.; water guinea, Leighton, Ala. (A. H. Howell); water guinea 

 hen, Mother Carey's chicken, Hickman, Ky. (Pindar). 



Phalaropodidae. 



60. Phalaropus fulicarius. — Herring bird, Jersey geese, coast of 

 Nova Scotia. 



61. LoMpes lobatus. — Herring bird, Jersey geese. Coast of Maine; 

 whale-bird, Massachusetts (Shooting and Fishing, ,16, No. 11, July 

 5, 1894, p. 205). 



Recubvirostridae. 



62. Recurvirostra americana. — Tilter, Corpus Christi, Tex. 

 (Johnson, S. M., Forest and Stream, 13, No. 6, Sept. 11, 1879, p. 

 625); sickle-bill, Willapa Harbor, Wash.; yellow snipe, Fresno, 

 Calif. (Tyler). 



Scolopacidae. 



63. Philohela minor. — Night-flit, Currituck, N. C. (Brimley). 



64. MacrorJiamphus griseus. — Dowits, Long Island, N. Y. (For- 

 est and Stream, 7, 1876, p. 149). Name said to be derived from a 

 note of the bird, a theory different from that given by Trumbull 

 (p. 160). 



65. Micropalama hiniantopus. — Frost snipe, New Jersey (Hol- 

 berton) ; bastard yellowlegs, Wallops Id., Va. 



65a. Pisobia maculata. — Hay plover. Wallops Id., Va. 



66. Pisobia fuscicollis. — White-tailed stib, Plymouth, Mass. 

 (Browne). 



67. Pisobia ininutilla and Ereunetes pusillus. — Ox-eye, bumble- 

 bee, New Jersey (Holberton) ; mud-suckers, little birds, bumble- 

 bees, Wallops Id., Va. Bumble-bee peep is used on Cape Cod (Ca- 

 houn), and the generic name for small sandpipers on Nantucket 

 is peckies (B.). 



68. Pelinda alpina sakhalina. — Smutty-breast, Wallops and Rev- 

 els Ids., Va.; winter birds, the former; winter ox-eye, Cape Cod, 

 Mass. (Murdoch). 



69. Calidris leucophaea. — Skinner, Plymouth, Mass. (Browne); 

 bull-peep, Cape Cod, Mass. (Cahoon); strand or surf snipe, Long 

 Id., N. Y. (Forest and Stream, 7, 1876, p. 149); clayton. Wallops 

 Id., Va. 



